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  1. May 26, 2021 · North By Northwest is perhaps the most famous tale of mistaken identity ever put to screen. Directed by the master, Alfred Hitchcock, the film stars Cary Grant as a man mistaken for a government agent before getting pursued cross-country by a spy.

  2. Switched at Birth (also known as Mistaken Identity and Two Babies: Switched at Birth [1]), American made-for-television drama film released in 1999 by Alexander/Enright & Associates and Carlton America. [2]

  3. Mistaken Identity: Directed by Nikki Stockley. It's about two mothers who must confront the nightmare that their babies have been switched at birth due to a hospital blunder.

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    • Documentary
    • Nikki Stockley
    • 1999-11-11
    • The Big Lebowski (1998) A stone cold classic, Coen brothers’ bizarrely charming, eccentric comedy tells the story of a man named ‘the Dude’ who is mistaken by two goons for a millionaire named Lebowski.
    • The Great Dictator (1940) One of Charlie Chaplin’s boldest works, ‘The Great Dictator’ tells the story of a Jewish barber who loses his memory and after twenty years, tries to comprehend the massive changes that took place in his country.
    • The Wrong Man (1956) ‘The Wrong Man’ is one of Hitchcock’s least talked about works. The film takes the form of a docudrama and tells a story based on a real-life incident about an innocent man who is arrested after being mistaken for a criminal.
    • North by Northwest (1959) One of Alfred Hitchock’s most entertaining movies, ‘North by Northwest’ follows an ad executive who is mistaken for a government agent and is chased off by foreign spies across the country.
  4. 11 of the Best Mistaken Identity Movies. "Hollywood constantly mines familiar and successful themes for its new movies. One such common theme is the "mistaken identity" movie. In this particular kind of story, the protagonist is usually mistaken for someone else, which ends up causing great trouble for them in their lives.

  5. Portraits of mistaken identities in movies have often been funny, but there are many movies that use the theme to explore bold, controversial subjects with striking deviations in tone and approach.

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  7. Jan 9, 2018 · The “mistaken identity” trope, that is, the dislocation between what we think we are and what others think we are, has been there igniting the imagination of creative people since time immemorial.